Table 1. Cumulative list of all general thoracic surgical procedures performed during the study period. The 33 reoperations that were performed for the management of complications are not included in the table below.

Procedure per organ	Open procedures	Video-assisted procedures
Lung and pleural surgery
Lobectomy/bilobectomy	140	–
Pneumonectomy	35	–
Anatomical segmentectomy	5	–
Wedge resection and metastasectomies	48	5
Enucleation/resection of pulmonary hamartoma	7	1
Enucleation of lung hydatid cyst	7	–
Drainage of benign persistent lung abscess	3	–
Exploratory thoracotomy or thoracoscopy, lung and lung tumor biopsies	34	20
Bullectomy and pleurectomy or isolated pleurectomy	61	44
Drainage of empyema and lung decortication	31	3
Pleuectomy/decortication for mesothelioma	3	–
Drainage of post-traumatic clotted hemothorax	7	2
Pleural biopsy/talc pleurodesis	–	18
Mediastinal surgery
Biopsy of mediastinal tumors and mediastinal lymph nodes	28 (anterior mediastinotomy: 24 & thoracotomy: 4)	52 (video mediastinoscopy: 47 & VATS: 5)
Resection of mediastinal tumors	48	–
Extented transternal thymectomy for myasthenia Gravis	17	–
Removal of mediastinal cysts	7	–
Creation of pericardial window through the subxiphoid route or left anterior thoracotomy*	15	–
Various accesses to the spine for neurosurgical procedures	7	–
Chest wall surgery
Resection of chest wall tumor and chest wall reconstruction	22	–
Resection of chest wall tumor without chest wall reconstruction	13	–
Repair on anterior chest wall deformities	7	1
Repair of sternal fracture	2	–
Tracheal and esophageal surgery
Repair of tracheoesophageal fistula	6	–
Resection of tracheal stenosis	6	–
Resection of Zenker’s diverticulum	2	–
Iwor-Lewis esophagectomy	3	–
Removal of esophageal foreign body	2	–
Diaphragmatic surgery
Repair of hemidiaphragm (hernia, traumatic rupture, defect)	5	–
Plication of hemidiaphragm for eventration	2	–
Total	573	146

*, not recorded as cardiac surgery procedures in the database of the department.